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RAS
2006
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13 years 5 months ago
Self-reconfigurable M-TRAN structures and walker generation
The M-TRAN is a modular robot capable of both three-dimensional self-reconfiguration and whole body locomotion. Introducing regularity in allowed structures reduced difficulties o...
Haruhisa Kurokawa, Eiichi Yoshida, Kohji Tomita, A...
IROS
2009
IEEE
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13 years 12 months ago
A new modular schema for the control of tumbling robots
— Tumbling is an exciting new area of robotic locomotion that takes advantage of ground-body interactions to achieve rich motions with minimal hardware complexity. The increased ...
Brett Hemes, Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos
IROS
2008
IEEE
106views Robotics» more  IROS 2008»
13 years 11 months ago
Viability and predictive control for safe locomotion
— The problem of safe locomotion of legged and wheeled robots, when trying to avoid falling, tipping over or hitting obstacles, appears to be a problem of viability and not of Ly...
Pierre-Brice Wieber
JVCA
2006
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13 years 5 months ago
A motion capture-based control-space approach for walking mannequins
Virtual mannequins need to navigate in order to interact with their environment. Their autonomy to accomplish the navigation task is ensured by locomotion controllers. Control inp...
Julien Pettré, Jean-Paul Laumond
AI50
2006
13 years 9 months ago
AI in Locomotion: Challenges and Perspectives of Underactuated Robots
Abstract. This article discusses the issues of adaptive autonomous navigation as a challenge of artificial intelligence. We argue that, in order to enhance the dexterity and adapti...
Fumiya Iida, Rolf Pfeifer, André Seyfarth